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@@js2749 Did you discover all these in your astral plane surfing adventures? Or maybe the ascended masters provided you with a masterclass on the subject? Do tell how you know about these additional races and their multiverses!
I know someone from Africa who went to UAE to be employed by a family to nurse their kid. Passport confiscated. Not one single day off since two years. Was supposed to end contract on april 27th then has now to stay there one more year. Modern slavery. Sick! Utterly disgusting!
I've known people who worked in Saudi Arabia, but in skilled labor. They said the Saudis do everything to keep from paying and if possible, will pay nothing for labor. The people I knew were savvy enough to stop work immediately when they weren't paid, but low-skilled workers don't have such leverage. I wouldn't do business in the Arab world for anything.
Human trafficking is what the workers from abroad are an example of and everyone ignores it. I have no interest in visiting such a place. It's disgusting.
I learned a few scary things about Dubai and UAE from an airline pilot friend of mine who was considering flying for them. As a foreigner you will belong to your employer and your permission to stay in the country is bound to them. This is also true in Qatar. The cabin crew are forced to live in corporate accommodation where the building is riddled with CCTV, there are guards at the door and keycards track the cabin crew coming and going. They are subject to strict curfews and travel restrictions. For example they cannot spend the night elsewhere. They must return for curfew. They are restricted to their apartment for hours before every work related event. All visitors are recorded and male ones are often banned. They must get permission from the airline to get married and pregnancy is immediate grounds for being fired. They are even afraid of interacting with the pilots and desperately avoid going to the cockpit or limit their time in there as much as possible for fear of being accused of being too close to men. It’s a horrible culture of fear and very typical of the UAE. Dubai is just as bad-I just happen to be more familiar with ex-Qatar employees.
QR is notorious for its treatment of its crewmembers, matching the more heavy-handed laws and social norms of Qatar in general. Those flying for EK probably have similar restrictions, but don't seem as high-strung.
@jjandos6 they're in fact not free to leave though at any time because they signed a contract with the employer it would be pretty hard to leave the country. You can go on RU-vid and look at women's story who were on QT flight crews. And don't take offense or take anything personally they're just relaying their experiences
that's not true. dubai is arabic not muslim. most muslim countries are good if your in the same culture. dubai is very fake. other countries arent@@Person0fColor
@@Person0fColor nono stop saying that theyre obviously the religion of peace as they say😀 and as we can see after two swedish people being shot for no reason other than pea sized brain
They're more concerned about "reparations" and slavery that happened 250 years ago, yet completely choose to ignore actual slavery going on in the middle east and asia
You often read about the situation "when we run out of oil" but it's more about when the demand for oil decreases under a critical threshold (EVs, Bullet trains, geothermal pumps replacing oil heating, reusable packaging decreasing need for single use plastics). After all we didn't stop using horses for transportation 100+ years ago because we ran out of hay for horses, but because a significantly better technological solution came to the market at a a competitive price.
I wish my country would implement such fuel alternatives at a much faster rate; it seems we're woefully behind much of Western Europe. The geopolitical reasons are complicated and I don't understand them all, but the sooner the U.S. gets off the Middle Eastern oil tit, the better off we'll be.
EV seemed like the better alternative environmentally at first but now that we're in the phase of mass production and usage, the problems of toxic metals required to make these batteries are starting to be concerning
Any country that allows companies to confiscate your passport should immediately be a HUUUGE red flag. Dubai honestly looks like a soulless shithole. I cant imagine why anyone would want to go there much less live there.
Meanwhile America keeps murdering countless civilians in Middle East and ruining lives of millions more by turning them into refugees. Yeah, Dubai with their labor exploitation is totally worse than America who won’t let there be world peace.
Standard of living for people with a decent job is much higher than in western countries, especially when you factor in the tax benefits, and the weather is better than most countries.
Wasn't Panem to describe the entire Hunger Games universe? Like all the districts and the captiol was considered Panem If comparing, Dubai would be more similar to district 12, and America as the captiol
@user-sq2qr8kk4k It must suck living such a shallow and worldly life. "Oh cool, I'm in this place that is arbitrarily 'fancy,' therefore I have status! Now take a shit on me so I can get paid!" It would do a man nothing to gain the entire world but lose his soul.
@@blackbelt2000All paint is chemical based, there's no difference. "chemical based" versus "green dye" is just clever rearrangement of words designed by newspapers to make you believe their political opinion.
Dubai is the perfect depiction of "the Lust of the Flesh, the Lust of the Eyes, and the Pride of the Life" You already know what type of people are Living and Thriving in this type of place.
In 2007, I moved from West Virginia to Dubai to work as a petroleum geologist. I moved back in 2014 when the industry collapsed. Let me put it this way. I call my little hometown a shitty place in the most endearing way possible. But Dubai is just a shitty place, both literally and figuratively.
I'd unironically rather get thrown into the woods with nothing but my two hands and clothes on my back to survive with than be forced to live in Dubai for the rest of my life.
I lived there for nearly 8 years, I had a great job, nice villa to live in (with pool) and I didn't pay tax, and I have a nice nest egg and have retired early, I wasn't forced to live there and whilst all my friends will have to work until their mid 60's, and beyond I've already retired and am set up for the rest of my days. So you enjoy your life in the woods whilst I make the most of not having to work anymore and travel and do what i want. Have fun.
I have lived in Dubai for 8 months and was desperate to go out for a walk through a park. No nature just stupid malls. I was so glad when we moved away from there
Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Verily, there is a Fitnah (trial) for every nation and the trial for my nation (or Ummah) is wealth". At- Tirmidhi, who classified it as Hadith Hasan Sahih.
@@parnamsaini4751not really. It is clear , oil came first. Then unlike the Congo for instance, they transformed that oil in something not primary, tourism, business, air travel etc. So the oil could run our and maybe Dubai would continue to thrive . Maybe
Watched a video a while back where this European guy went through the experience of basically slaving away as a receptionist in Dubai (passport got taken away). When he finally went home, they told him that if he doesn't return, they will punish his coworker lol (and it will be because of his decision). Pretty medieval stuff but that's what you get behind the facade. Some of the best places to live in the world are not the richest or the fanciest, but where people hold on to the values that matter, not smoke and glitter..
As someone born in Dubai, ya that pretty much sums up everything. It’s like they said “The Dubai Dream✨”. Currently right now it’s so crowded with job seekers that it’s super competitive to get a job now even for the locals. All these things happening in Dubai believe me no one here can say these things cuz you’ll get arrested, jailed then deported for ruining “public image” that’s why u will only see the “good” never the bad..
Banning free speech should be the biggest red flag to anyone with half a brain. That means that the ones with power can and will get away with any atrocity they choose to do next. If you find yourself in such a country leave as fast as you can.
Same thing in Qatar when I was stationed there. I was soo taken back by the politeness of the migrant workers there and how they would almost prostrate before you.
Playground for the rich and wealthy sums it all up! If you are not rich and wealthy you're the toy. Even if you are rich and wealthy that is a hollow life to live!
It’s literally the complete opposite of rapture. The entire region is governed over with an iron fist and Sharia law. They murder gheys but yet “gheys for Palestine” is a real thing 😂😂😂😂 I think last I checked 29 counties have the death penalty for homosexuality. It goes without saying most of these are under developed Muslim countries.
I have always found this sand pit devoided of any culture, artificial, nauseating, backward plated in gold and brass, and where modern slavery thrives...not in my bucket list like EVER.
civilized? lol. western confirmed. if anything doesn't speak english and follow western shit it's not civilized. you never get out of your parent house.
if there ARE no taxes they're getting to run country then there IS something else they're getting to run country think how can a country run if no one pays tax??
At 12:34 - wtf is that control center with the giant monitor screens? Looks like an updated Apollo moon launch control room, but they're watching... highways?
Back in the 90's I was on a long flight from Thailand. The plane stopped at Dubai for refuel/pick up or something. As passengers we could leave the plane and go to the shops at the airport if we wanted. I didn't bother with it even back then. Vanity project in the desert indeed. Horrible place and horrible treatment of people.
I am in Dubai or traversing it at least twice a year. It is cold, hard, shiny plastic. The first time I went I was briefly wowed by the glitz and then soon realized how hollow it was…
I find it so interesting. Even after seeing influencers and that talk about how good Dubai is, I just look at it and think, there's just nothing there. I've always thought there's something dodgy and strange about that place. Frankly I don't understand the appeal to go there at all, but thinking about it, people only go to post it on social media. However the gyms there look decent, but that's it. So watching this video has solidified that my gut feeling was correct.
My wife and I spent two nights in Dubai on the way home from spending a month in Berlin in September 2013. Dubai certainly had an unreal, superficial feel about it.That said, air-conditioned bus stops and driverless trains were memorable. We also spent a week in Singapore. That felt safe too, but it lacked a life that we felt previously in Berlin and New York.
It really bothers me that they've probably destroyed whole ecosystems just for the sake of having those fake islands, which are always at risk of dissolving into the sea. To me, the whole city, while fascinating, is just about vanity and putting on a show. I used to want to visit there, but the more I learn about it, the less I want to go, partly because of how they treat the people who work there. Singapore is a city I want to visit, despite how expensive it is, in large part due to all the greenery. I've also heard that people who go to work in Singapore are treated a lot better.
It's always reminded me of the upper city from Minority Report, the first time I went through there in 2012 the airport even looked like Minority Report.
I'll add this to my list of country's downfalls for my science fiction book series: America, their pride China, their power North Korea, their security Dubai, their wealth
found the european monarchist. its such a shame so many euros truly see themselves as the only true human beings on the earth. while being responsible for killing more humans, plants and animals than anyone else... and causing more harm than anyone else ever could. that little period of time when you all had guns and no one else did really went to your heads. like for hundreds of years now, you still cant accept that you dont own the planet and its people.
My aunts and uncles were OFWs (overseas Filipino workers) in Dubai, they said they didn't know why they are still there bc of the insanely high living expenses. They would live with 6 other people in order to afford rent.
Dubai and Singapore seem to be built on entirely different philosophies. For Dubai it's: Materialism and wealth. Excess and luxury for tourists and the rich, with cheap disposable labour to back it up. It's essentially not a city built to uphold a society or live in longterm. It's a place to stabilize the economy when the oil wealth starts to disappear. But fundamentally it's unsustainable, just a gut feeling. I really feel like one day some small thing goes wrong, then it's issues start cascading ending up with most of the city being abandoned by the people it's meant to attract, ending up with it becoming a shell of it's former self as the country's wealth and influence slowly gets worn down in the sand and wind into obscurity. A pathetic fate for a pathetically shallow city. Fitting. Economically unsustainable and politically bankrupt. For Singapore it's: Stability and optimism. Stable, safe, economically and structurally sound long-term living. It's built to last and be habitable permanently, and for people to always live there, poor and rich. Because they only have one city to work with, with no way out if things go wrong, they have no choice but to go all in on the city. Besides, I assume planning is alot easier with all them needing to work with is one single city. Fundamentally it's sustainable with the direction it's going in. I just feel that. With how rich and developed it is politically and economically, making Singapore fall into ruin is not an inevitability, but a challenge, and a very hard one at that.
Interesting take considering how large Singapore's wealth inequality is, unachievable real estate prices and awful worklife balance (voted worst in Asia). But sure, keep telling us how much better it is.
@@JaneDoe-st3gi your comment really doesn't make sense, like, are you seriously mad they called Singapore a nice place??? Some of y'all just want to be miserable all the time 💀
Theres a Dark side to any city in the world. as they say " if you look for shit. U will smell it everywhere " Its the safest country i visited especially for families
I lived in Dubai for 6 months and it's like the artificial sweetener of desserts. Or you can compare its wastefulness and grandeur to reanimating a dead body. You can invest as much time and energy to keep it alive but it's unsustainable because ultimately the rot can only be mitigated at best. They had real potential to make a revolutionary place unlike anywhere on Earth but they chose to appeal to people's desires and greed. Nothing there is sustainable, it's all being propped up by unreal amounts of wasted energy, labor, and materials. I had gone to theme parks and malls that gave off an earie ghost town vibe. I will hand it to them that it's immaculately clean and feels very safe.
I'm glad you mentioned G4S btw, my cousin used to work for them in security and her wages were abysmal, she too was housed in one of their accommodations and the place was absolutely horrendous and incredibly unsafe for women to live by themselves. Extremely unhygienic and downright dangerous to live in those places even though she had one of the more better housing situations compared to others.
My dad is one of the people who was part of the construction of famous structures like the Burj Khalifa, he said he barely gets paid and sometimes ask why are these structures even being made?
I remember my mom being so excited to go , not gonna lie I wanted to but I couldn’t afford it at the time , when she came back she said she’s never going to go back , like idk what she saw over there but like she’s never had that reaction to any destination she’s ever been too.
I've been to Dubai but it was just a stop over before going to Australia. Dubai is basically a shit hole and most people come across as rude and full of their own self importance. I've never been so glad to be on plane before. Got to Australia absolute loved it there.
In my experience every country I've visited, and probably every country in the world, has a place like Dubai, but on a smaller scale. Places that look good on the surface, and the only reason people go there is to be seen. Dubai is one of these places for the entire world. They're attempting to attract wealthy people from the entire world, and of course it's working. I'm not attracted to a place like this at all, personally, but I've not seen it in real life. I can't imagine enjoying it though, and the stories you hear about what goes on over there are seriously disgusting. And I would point out one more thing. The only ultra-wealthy people in Dubai are the people who run it. It's not the ultra-wealthy of the west who go to Dubai, it's the fake ultra-wealthy of the west.
my friends went on holiday there when we were teens. They were arrested and questioned for hours merely for leaning on a wall, chewing gum and talking to a couple of boys...
The sooner Dubai disappears into the sand where it belongs the better. Poor vanity project. Sadly, it's not just Dubai. Wannabe Dubais such as Qatar, Abu Dhabi and even some places in Saudi Arabia have similar practices of exploitation. In the book/film A Hologram for the King, I remember the quote: "In Saudi, we don't have unions, we just have Philipinos."
I feel like more and more people are finally coming out with these videos and I feel like it’s necessary as someone who has meet someone from Dubai it’s NOT what you think.
This is very true coming from someone who lives in dubai (I really would prefer to live in Australia though).Everytime you go out you’re going to at least see a few buses of migrant workers who look awfully sad and unhygienic not to mention the extreme heats they have to work in everyday.
I wouldn't migrate to Australia, man. We can't trust our government here. Our people aren't much different, either. Laws are unjust and don't make sense. House prices are so high NOBODY can afford them, rent is more than 2/3rds of the average wage. Not as bad as the UAE. But, not much better.
@@spankyjeffro5320 Yeah these are really bad issues in the country but nonetheless, i really admire its nature as its my favourite aspect of the country as well as the large amount of university opportunities it has to offer. (I also lived in brisbane for the majority of my childhood)
Plenty of meaning behind it. Skyscrapers look great and allow for more efficient home and office production on top of making the skyline and city look better and feel better to live and work in
@@autograndeunlimitedand NONE of this happens in those buildings in Dubai, thats his point not that they don’t look good 😂🤦🏻♂️😊.. check out the Chinese “ghost cities” and “ghost office skyscrapers”
I travelled almost all of Europe and I got so used to the experience of landing in a European city, walking around walkable streets, seeing locals go about their day, chilling in a park or even taking public transport to the edge of the city to escape the urban sprawl... and then I came to Dubai. That trip had this "Lost in translation" feel to it, I was there alone, moving through the empty streets under the skyscrapers, getting on the metro line and only ever seeing people from India, Pakistan, Africa, never any Arab people, then walking these long roofed corridors for 20 minutes to get from one place of interest to the other, then being surrounded by vapid influencers in the malls taking selfies. The best way to describe my experience there would be 'surreal', like I was walking in a dream, never able to connect with anything or anyone on an emotional level, just cruising through liminal spaces in an artificial environment in a place where nothing lives.
Hahaha, you described exactly my experience when i booked a 3 days stopover in Dubai in 2018. I kept looking for a market square, or something that would mark the center where people would come together and talk about life. I didn't find it.
I've always gotten a similar feeling in ultra-new places; for example when I lived in Japan two decades ago (I lived in an older "suburb" of Tokyo, really another city that had become part of the metro area, in an older and definitely not upscale neighbourhood) I took a day trip to a new suburb, Makuhari, where the school I worked for was planning to open a new branch. I was just curious to see it. One of my students told me it had been built on reclaimed land. It was so new to me that it didn't seem real, almost everything raised above ground, getting around on raised walkways from one shopping complex or housing complex to another. Maybe because I was born in a very old British city and mostly grew up in a small Canadian prairie city this was so, so far from my "normal". "Science-fiction-y" was I think how I later described it. I was happy and relieved to finally find a little park right in the middle of it, and feel actual ground under my feet.
Dubai is full of billionaires and young grifters. One of the most shallow places I’ve ever been, the only people worth talking to are the cleaners and hotel workers who are treated like absolute slaves and paid pennies.
They are the folks that don't have internet reach as fast as us and have huge urgency to work and earn a living. They were sold a dream of stable income and good work conditions and ended up in totally reverse situation. Forced so sign a death contract and so on.
😂 it’s 2023 and people are just realizing the world outside America is horrible! 😂😂 There are more slaves alive today than at any other period in history.
Its actually not, psychologically speaking. When societies are oppressed, they tend to lean into the Taboo, see the Alphabet rise in America vs Christianity.
@@Person0fColorexactly, and it's crazy people don't even realize or don't want to that there are today: more people dying from war and famine, there are more slaves and forced labour especially children, more descrimination. Than ever in the history of the world.
I was actually just thinking something similar: Over the last few decades, shopping-malls have fallen "out of fashion". Mostly because the consumer-market changed with online shopping, but also because they're just not "the place to be" like they were back in the late half of the 20th century. - Today there are massive shells of abandoned buildings just rotting away because they couldn't be sustained anymore. And seeing them just shows how shallow and materialistic the human mind had become. I think even people got fed up with it, even though we still suffer of "materialism" with things like phones and social media trying to convince us it's important. - Anyway, malls are just a great example of what was wrong with society for decades already, and a place like Dubai is indeed like an enhanced version of that principle. Just a flashy place to hang out and feel important, but nothing of substance. - I hope, like malls, one day it will be an abandoned dilapidated shell, exemplifying what went wrong with the modern human. - It can be swallowed by the the desert and the ocean for all I care.
That depends on location then because there are many malls by me and even family members in other places of the nation where malls are still VERY popular and very frequented. Parking is a nightmare. @@michaelmonstar4276
It usually depends on the will. Both mean the same, but expat tends to be used for those who chose to move abroad, immigrant for those who have to move abroad due to the circumstances in their country. It’s not the same to have an American move to France than it is to have a Venezuelan trek through the jungle to Panama-and I say it as a Venezuelan myself
That’s white people for you. They hate non-white people so much that they can’t fathom a non-white country actually be good so they have to demonise it.
As a gardener and someone who is very enthusiastic about nature, seeing Singapore handle their park areas and greenery so well in such a crowded city is mind-blowing and should really be more respected
I lived in Singapore for 5 years and even when Marina Bay is packed or any part of the country, people would put their litter to the proper bin. What's more is there's police drones patrolling some parts of the Area, I remember some in Jurong East and in South Marina Pier.
@@thelagginggamer1309I live in the US and it's so aggravating that as a rich country, we're so wasteful and can't even bin our rubbish properly. I've seen shit and garbage firsthand; I was born in Calcutta & I love that city but it's so dirty. People there don't have civic sense and it seems like people here don't either. Granted the pollution isn't off the charts, but it's still depressing
Migrant workers are undoubtedly treated terribly and its an unfortunate situation. The situation is improving and it's important to know that they get better opportunities here than in the other government's. I live in dubai and it is very similar to the west but safe and tax free. Some people find themselves stuck with the law and end up being punished but it's the same in America! I know a friend who was jailed for a crime he did not do and that was in America!
I feel you, but I'm not quite sure that I can agree; While I agree that Dubai is a Dystopia, but when it comes to the ultimate representation of a Dystopia, it's hard to compete with L.A. and Detroit
Ever see the silent film "Metropolis?" Dubai and similar Arab cities remind me of that: two distinct classes, one that lives in beautiful elegance at the top, and the downtrodden poor that do all the work. And there's nothing in between (at least American cities still have the middle). I've been to Doha, which is similar. It was fascinating, but I would never EVER live in a place like that. Still, I hope they can turn themselves into something better and sustainable. I don't wish collapse on anyone.
@yokuzo11 Much of America is amazing and I would rather live there than Dubai but I can't justify paying such a massive tax especially with how everybody is acting in regards to crime and activists.
